June 12, 2025 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air. We'll get to
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the phone calls for about one minute.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I have the good fortune and I suppose in some
ways the burden of knowing a lot of people, and
sometimes that can be a burden in the sense that
while you share celebratory moments, I'm also some one that
people will send bad news to as well, so it
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can seem like it all starts to pile up. Several
of my friends were themselves or friends with the father
of or their kids, friends with the victim of a
tragic accident in Colorado a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ago, and it was.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Involving a young man I believe he was at TCU
and he was a pledge brother of some kids that
I know there, high school classmate, I guess of some
other kids in their parents that I know, And it
is it's just one of those reminders life is precious
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and it can be over before you know it. I
lost classmates in high schoo that's a that's a misfortune.
I lost classmates shortly after high school. I remember Danny
Donovan died on a motorcycle. I think he was on
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Main Street in vider when we were about nineteen, and
that was the first one that really, you know, somebody
that I knew somewhat well who had passed. And then
Richard Church hit a deer on a farm to market
road and midnight coming home from work. He was in
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a little toil to truck and he hit this deer
head on. There was no lighting out on the I mean,
you know, you see these stories, and.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
He was gone. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Anyway, Netflix dropped a film two days ago called It's
part of a series they're doing called train Wreck. It's
the second in the series and it's Things That Went
and it's about the Astra World Travis Scott concert and
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I'm gonna tell you something, it's pretty good storytelling. They
make you. They put you in the moment of being
crushed by a crowd and being unable to breathe, and
you about half hyperventilate watching the film. It is tough
to watch because as a young man in the group,
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they didn't spend a lot of time on him. His
name was John Higbert, but he was at Memorial and
I think he was Crockett's age. But I knew a
lot of parents that knew the parents of this kid.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't believe I knew the kid himself.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I say, I don't believe because you spend enough time
on ball fields and you, you know, you say, oh,
I don't know who this kid is. It just won
this award and you find out that you coached a
team against him or whatever else. So I don't believe
I knew the young man. But we have a lot
of friends in common anyway. That is uh. I don't
want to say it's a good film, train Wreck, it's
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a it's I think it's it's uh, it's an eye
opening film.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And for those of you, especially in Houston, who had
some connection to the ten people who died, or some
connection to what was going on at the time, who
want to be reminded how awful Lena Hidalgo is and
how terrible a mayor Sylvester Turner is, It's It's a movie.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I would recommend you watch. How about that? Tom? Are
you are expert on all dads?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I'm not an expert?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Shot and I oh, okay, how how do they eat?
Are they good?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
What?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He didn't take us off speaker? Yeah, well you got
to do that, Dave. You don't have us on speaker,
do you.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Anymore? I took you off?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, please don't do that because it's it's awful radio.
All right, tell me about all dads, I got your brother.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
What do you want to know? I mean, I've killed
dozens of them. They're they're huge animals. Yeah, they uh,
they're all over the hill country. As far as eating
the flavor is good, but the more you chew them,
the bigger they get in your mouth. No matter how
long you cook them. They're just tougher than the hell.
Super tough.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That doesn't that doesn't sound like something I would choose
to go eat. It sounds like something that now that
I've felt it, I'm gonna eat it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, I mean it's cool. They're they're cool. They're gigantic animal.
The unique thing about them is that, you know from
Northern Africa, they coagulate almost instantly when they get shot.
So if you shoot one and you hit them just right,
they're gonna.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Go a mile a mile, a mile, and you're not
gonna be able to follow them.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
No, no, it back in the pump. They're gonna take
off exactly exactly. They're They're tough to get so you
gotta get them just right to put them down. But
they're big, man. I shot one that top to four
hundred pound scale and I don't know what a way,
but it topped out the scale big time.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And where was this?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Between Comfort and Caerrville?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Whose ranch?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It was? Our lease? It was on the on the
heid Old ranch, the old looking back family Albert Heidel
on that place. We were on that for years.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Who's we.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Me and a bunch of guys from Montgomery County.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What did y'all pay for that lease?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I think it was thirty five grand a year.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
How many of y'all are? How many of y'all.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
There were?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Old? Eight or ten of us? It was a I
think twenty five hundred acres is beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Was there a lodge on it?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
There was an old house they moved down from Fredericksburg
gazillion years ago, and we had all of our RVs
out around the house. It's kind of like that was
the main lodge. And uh, there was bunks upstairs, the
old kitchen, and I mean the house. It had about
a hundred and fifty years old old stone home. They
moved piece by piece down there.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Oh wow, oh wow, those old Frederick, those old Frederick
Fredericksburg homes. I love those fetchwork homes. I have a
friend named Bruce Laboon. I hadn't seen him in ten years,
but he had an old German you know, the logs
on top of the fetchwork, that great German architecture of
that era.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And this home was man.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
His home was like eighteen seventies, and you know, it
was kind of a low slung it was like a
cave inside. Just glorious, glorious home. And he had restored
it but stayed true to the original feel of it.
And we stayed there, My wife and I stayed there
for the night. Bruce was one of my many mentors
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over the years. But it was just a glory. I
love those old German homes of that era. That was
just just absolutely fantastic. What did you and the other
guys home fight have in common?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Where does all people that knew each other here in
Montgomery County?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I know, how did y'all know each other? Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I figured y'all were, okay, gosh, not everybody's a cop there,
But there's the cops out there and bail bondsman, and
what are yours? I was the bail bond industry. Now
I'm a drive investigator still and zero contractor to come
to politics.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Do you enjoy a harsh chemical lactative where you have
came to the right place? Because Michael Berry get on
him blowing all out babylage.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Beyond, i'd you accuse me beyond.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I discovered this song.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Called Le Moury Bond le Mory Bone by Jacques Brell,
a Belgian nineteen sixty one song when I was researching
Brian Wilson years ago, and he loved the song Seasons
in the Sun by Terry Jacks, and Seasons in the
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Sun was a translation of this song Les Mary Bond,
which is actually translated as the Dying Man Seasons in
the Sun is not nearly as maudline as the original.
But if you get a chance to go find his
name is Jacques Brell, b r e l.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's about it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It's a dying man's tribute to the people around him,
and so he closes the circle, ending with his wife
of you know he's going to be dying soon and
his love for them.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It's a great song, fantastic song.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Harry from Nashville, the drummer of the band that performed Wildfire,
which is how I remember him in my daily emails.
Harry Wilkinson, I believe is his name, Harry.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You're up.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Good morning, Michael. We have a swan song. Last Tuesday
I got together with Michael and we played at the
Franklin Theater in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, and back that
place out. We had a little one evening where I
went back and played drugs for Mike. I wanted to
talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, Mike, does that mean that Michael Martin Murphy has done.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
No, no, it was just I went back. He does
a trio behind him now and since he was in Nashville,
the piano player, uh, and myself, not the original piano player,
but the great piano player, Dave Hofner.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And I came back and played for Michael last Tuesday,
and my son was there and eight family members and
my disabled blind granddaughter got to meet Michael and he
was really nice and she asked he asked him a question,
Michael Murphy, do you know what show you should watch?
And she he said, no, we're looking bappos back in
the Drisker and she has uh. She had a surgery
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which is fourteen months old. The coulcures to be of
cerebral palsy. Right, so he says to him, she's sixteen
years old. You need to watch the show Nailed It,
which is cooking show. And he said, do you know
what my favorite song is? I thought, Oh, she's going
to say wildfire and he says, he looks at me again,
quizically and she says the Longest Day. And now that
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he looks at me again, quiz you know the Billy
Joel song. And it was really funny. But I was
going to tell you about the Beach Boys story when
we did the show. It's the Spectrum in Philadelphia where
we had a very brief sound check. After the Beach
Boys went through their soundcheck and the drummer was roady,
was very domineering, and he gave us just a moment.
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He polished the drums and everything to keep me from
getting a chance to clean up. And then right after
our show, Mike Love took me back into the dressing
room and their dressing room was made out like a
Malibu cabana, and it had a fake AstroTurf on the
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floor and big rats tan chairs and the spread of
food like you've never seen in a dressing room, and
Mike Loves like, what was you like, Harry here there?
I'm like, I can't believe I'm doing this, you know,
And so then they go out in there show starts
and the drum road. He had not set the snare
drum up properly, and as soon as Dennis the drummer
started playing, the drum fell over, and Dennis was like
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the hot tempered one in the band. He takes the
snare drum and tries to hit the guy over the
head with it, and we all had a good laugh
about that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, I was gonna be surprised if Michael Martin Murphy
was retiring because he's only eighty.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, he turned eighty last week. On he said it
was his birthday that night. But we had a crowd,
you know.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I just checked because I was trying.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I thought he was about seventy five March fourteenth, but
not so long ago.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
How about that? You know, while Fire was y'all's most.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Famous song, but I think What's what What's Forever for
is is just an absolutely beautiful, beautiful song, A fantastic song.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Drum No, sir, that was Eddie Bear's when send the
business that does the judge and mcagilly. He does all
the mcagilly stuff from years ago and the Johnny Lee
stuff that you liked. Eddie lears. He's a great guy,
great privilege. But I almost had tears in my eyes
on What's Forever four and we saved Wildsire to the
last song of the evening and it was just tremendous evening.
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So it's kind of like my swan song. I thought, Wow,
I've lived the dream.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I got to have a herd their applause one more time.
Did you just had a great evening?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Harry?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I know you're still involved with music, but did you
rehearse before that show or is it just you know,
getting back on bicycle.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's just that easy.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Well, they sent me a song of this the six
songs to do, and then we did four of them,
and then I just can listen real hard. I know
Michael stuff and being the piano player Wingdon on the song.
He has one about being a cowboys the cowboy way,
which I didn't really know. But I'm pretty good at
faking stuff, you know, I'm a pretty quick study on
that sort of thing. But It was a tremendous night,
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and a lot of his fans of years Yesteryear was
there dreat musical evening.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I just looked him up, Michael Martin Murphy, and I
did not realize he's the author of New Mexico's state
ballad The Land of Enchantment.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, glad to learn that too. Glad to learn that?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, how about that he was born in the Oak
Cliff section of Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I knew this from Dallas, I didn't know where.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
How about that he's a great writer. He's such a
great writer. I love his stuff. That the cowboys stuff.
It's I probably shouldn't say this, Well I will say it.
I think his cowboy stuff is better than chrys Ladue's stuff.
And frankly, I think that most people who would argue
with me over that learned about chrys Lado in a
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Garth Brooks song, in which case you don't have the
credibility to criticize my judgment for that.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Why did you leave the band, Harry?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
We just had a certain era of growth and he
was going to lead John Denver's management and go to
Cariboo Chicago Transit Authorities management, and they had a little
thing called an attorney, and they didn't like things. Change it,
and so things went anywhere for a moment, and I
got hired by a production company in Denver to do
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all their studio work, and I started my own bands
called the Red Birds, and we would have been on
Caribou Record had Terry Kams of Chicago about blowing his
springs up.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Oh man, that's the turn.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We got to pay money on coverage.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We didn't get nothing the Hard Times the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. It's a damn shame.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Bad when right there in the hand and dying roum man,
and then.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Think about it, is.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It was a damn horse. I wonder what percentage of
people that hum that song or sing along when it's
playing at the Applebee's in the background while they're eating,
realize the damn song is about a horse.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Ramon.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So we have a show sponsor called Republic Boot Company.
And when they started with us, they were they were
barely tread and water. It's a tough business. There are
custom boot companies out there and a lot of people.
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If you've never owned a custom boot. You don't know,
you have no idea what you're missing. And you know,
I'm sure that's true of many many things in life.
And in some things you hear all the hullabaloo about
it and then you do it and you go okay.
And you know what I would put in that category
of things from on escargo caviaar in about nine other
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expensive foods that are supposed to be so great.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Pote man. I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I don't even need to know how nasty it is
to know it tastes nasty. And you know what, I
don't think people actually like it. I think they say
they like it because if you're standing around at a
party and you're really rich and you want to pretend
we're having so much more fun than the pores, you
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have to act like you're enjoying it. You know what
people would enjoy, I'll tell you the truth. You know
what people would enjoy if you had a nice silver
dish like a NoMBe. That's about as fancy as the
Berry family gets. My wife and I were in Santa
Fe twenty five years ago, and we thought we were
somebody we bought. We discovered this silver serving dish set
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called Nambae. I don't know what it is. It was
a little more than the white with the blue trim
that my mother had had bought in the seventies that
everybody had, or the white with that yellow trim that
you still have cleaning out in my parents' house. They
still had that stuff, you know else they still had.
My wife was surprised it was one of the things
that I had to bring home. I'm in an anti
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clutter phase of my life, so I didn't. There are
a lot of keepsakes that didn't bring home, but one
I had to bring home was four of the old
Dairy Queen Christmas glasses. You know what I'm talking about.
If you had one. They're long and slender, and they
are black with a Sandy Claus little fellow with a
spike and it says DQ in the in the bottom.
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Every family had them, you collected them. It was a
complete set. It was a brilliant move by Dairy Quinn. Anyway,
I don't even know why I got on all that.
So Republic Boot Company was barely tread and water, and
I like to talk to my show sponsors about how
they're doing, and so I would ask how they were
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doing and just kind of slowly but surely.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Building up, building up.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And I'm not going to take credit for one hundred
percent of their success. Probably I mean to be accurate,
it's probably ninety five percent. Cal McNair went in and
brought the brought the quarterback a pair and we talked
about that, and they sold a lot more custom boots.
They sell boots off the rack, but they also but
most of their boots are custom boots. And anyway, so
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Chris works for I believe the owner works for Excellent,
and his day job he does so that he can
afford his passion, which is his boot company. And he started,
he bootstrapped this boot company, and he started in the heights,
and they just kept expanding. A little shop beside him
would close down, and they'd buy that little shop, and
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then they would expand in the hats, and they would
expand in the belts, and then you.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Know, they're already in the leather.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then they brought in a custom soup maker and
he does out of there, and then they brought in,
you know, all sorts of other stuff. And then they
put a little little tiny stage up front, and they
started having not that tiny they started having folks come
in and sing, and then they started bringing in rare
bourbons and things, and they started hosting parties. That became
an event space as well. Anyway, I'm so proud of them.
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He's bought the building and he was rushing to get
the building closed in time that he could celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary of the cornerstone brick being laid in
that building in the Heights. And it's at eleventh and
stud of Wood. If you know that corner, there used
to be a place called was it Creole Cafe? There
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used to be a great Louisiana kind of a fruit
fruit Louisiana coffee shop and pastry shop and you could
get fantastic jumbalai there.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Did you ever go there?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Ramone?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's on that hard corner. No, that's not really your
it's not that's not really saying a fact.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Not really your domain. You kind of have Santa Fe,
Texas City staked out. You handle that end.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Chad's got Westbury, Jim Mudd has got the northeast.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
He's got Huffman.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Was it Oak Cliff, Shenandoah? What else does he have
out there? But he's got that area. Let's just say
that uh Kunda has Katie I believe isn't Conda and Katie. Anyway,
Republic Boot Company is doing a deal. There was an
article about it and it was in the news, and
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I just saw it and made me think about it.
It's a kill your own alligator and then they make
boots out of the alligator you kill.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
So it's five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
You go to Annihac and they they they bring a
professional with you because anniwhak is the alligator.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Capital of the world.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You can't or uh Troy Landry and and all those
guys over there, they're they're my brother knew all those
guys they are the alligator whispers. Anyway, So there's a
big story about it. It's making national news. You go
with the professional, you track your gator, you shoot your gator,
skin your gator, and then they transform it into a
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pair of boots that you get to wear. Now can
you imagine how obnoxious some guy who's an accountant I
can see. I can see Harvin law Horn at Deroche
Partners my CPA. I think he went to Saint John
or King Kid or whatever. I can see Harvin going
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into the office meet with a client and he's got
his just most ghost pair of alligator boots on, and
somebody makes the mistake of saying, and that's why you
got to be careful.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Oh, that's a nice pair of boots.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And thirty five minutes later he's hearing the story about
how Harvon went with Republic Boot Company. He shot his
own gator and then they made the boots, and yeah
that you know what did Randy Rogers say, for the
sake of the song, This is all for the sake
of the story. That that's it's gonna be a great
story for for some downtown Mary te.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Tell me when will you be mine?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Tell me one nuck, one nup one.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
We can share.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Love divine, Please don't make me wait again. When will
you say yes to me?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Tell me one up, one up one?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You mean have been to me? Oh my love?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Please tell me when.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Every moment, every day seems a live time. Let me
show you the way to a joy beyond compare. I
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can wait a moment more.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Tell me one nook, one up one. See it's me.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I've been talking for forty five seconds and you couldn't
hear me because your moon had me potted down.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I guess I just think I'm the boss. When somebody
else can turn off your microphone.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You don't have complete agency if you don't fall on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
If you followed me before my account had three hundred
and fifty thousand followers, that's not my account anymore. They've
locked me out of it. They torment me by letting
me in for an hour at a time, whereupon I say, hey,
here's my new page. Go to my new page. But
then they lock it again. And even even when they
let me in, I have to go through eight pages
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that say your account is on the verge of being
canceled because you're a crash bastard.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Or something like that. I don't know what they say.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Because I posted things like Hunter Biden was taking bribes.
We now know that's true. Posted a picture of Hunter
Biden with a crack pipe in the bathtub. I only
showed it from the chest up.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Oh that's terrible. What about all these other people frolicking
on the beach.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
They got a naked chest too, What is it?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's bad if.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's Hunter Biden's. But anyway, I posted yesterday something we
had played. I like Engelbert Humperdink and we had played
out of yesterday or day before members yesterday, Hey, we'd
played Kwanda Kuwanda Kwonda, which I really like. And he said, hey,
dad's got Alzheimer's. So I read the Alzheimer's News and
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it was this story I think you would like. It
was a link to the story. And a guy probably
about my age drives around with his dad who has Alzheimer's,
and his dad doesn't really remember him all the time
most of the time, but he remembers the words to
this song. So they drive around and when it gets
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to the chorus, they sing it together. And I'm going
to tell you something. If you've watched somebody go through,
they now call it memory care.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
All the old folks.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Homes now they kind of there's a there's primarily kind
of a three phase process or three prongs to old
folks care now, which by the way, is very lucrative.
Now I had no idea big money. You've got what
they call independent living. And if somebody's in independent living,
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do not use the term old folks home. They don't
like that. That's what my mom and dad called it
until they were until my dad was in one. But
independent living is where you're old and you just don't
want to have to cut your own grass or manage
your own home. And you know, we're all, you know,
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marching to the grave in one way or another. Independent
living is a transition from living in your own home
to being in full blown what they call assisted living.
So independent living is if you can still you know,
control everything and handle your own medicine, and you're living
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around other people, and should you need help, it's there,
but you don't. You don't have constant nursing nurses stopping
in all day long.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Then you move from there to the.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
More costly and more services assisted living, and that means
you still have your mind, but you have some medical issue.
So in my dad's on my dad's he's in assisted
living because of the diabetes portion. So probably thirty percent
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of these folks are in a wheelchair and they have various,
you know, different problems that you if you've been around
old people, you know incontinence that, there can be skin issues,
there can be breathing issues, there can be all sorts
of things. My dad's is just very extreme diabetes, which
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he's battled for sixty five years. Alliantly, may I say,
because he's he shouldn't even be alive at eighty five,
much less have all ten of his toes and fingers
and his vision. It's unheard of, doctor stated, it's unheard of.
He had to treat himself for most of that and
then from assisted living. The next phase is, which I
don't think he has been around that long, is memory care,
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and that is people with Joe Biden disease in one
way or another.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
So Joe Biden should.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Have been in memory care. I mean, I guess in
a sense he was. They had him in the White House.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The only thing.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Nicki Haley has ever said useful was the most expensive
memory care or facility in America was.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The White House for the last four years.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Anyway, it's a really heartwarming story to see this guy
and his dad driving around and when they get to
the chorus, his dad catches up. That's the chorus, and
together they belt out Kwando, Kwando, kwondo, and it's just glorious.
I watched it for twenty and just watched it on loop.
It's incredible, if you, uh, if you can get over
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the fact that he does his show in drag, which
I find very tedious, but he's funny, so I'll listen
instead of watch.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Eddie Izzard has a clip on Engelbert Humper Dank and
how how he came to have his name.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It's uh, it's it's uh. It's it's very funny. Actually,
you'd probably rather listen to it than watch it. Every year,
every year the media attacks the Texas Rangers and they
try to cancel the team, including the local newspaper there,
Fort Worth Star Telegram, because they're the only team in
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Major League Baseball, the only holdout who refuses to host
a Pride Night. So now the Fort Worth Star Telegram says,
uh the headline, maybe hosting Pride Night will reverse the
Texas rangers putrid offense. You know, if I were the
Texas Rangers, I'd go Trump on them. I assume it's
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still Tom Hicks right that has it, George Bush's old
business partner. I would yank their media credentials. You want
to say things like that about us, I would absolutely Anyway,
I love to hear from you. So if you have
a random thought today, if you're interested in details on
our Palm Beach trip, we are. I think we have
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a third of the way to filling the group which
is faster than ever, probably because we'd put a little
time in between when I announced it in the event,
unlike the first couple of times, which our staff hates
but our team hates.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
You can email me on whatever the Palm Beach trip,
how to find our Facebook page show sponsors. Dozens of
times a day I am asked, who's your person who
does this? Who's the person who does that? Your custom boo,
it's your roofing, your jewelry, your gold.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Your a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Unfortunately, a lot of prostate uh cancer patients at want
to prostate doctor uh. But I'm glad we have someone
to send them to. You can email me through the
website Michael Berryshow dot com or directly Michael at Michael
Berryshow dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I do love to hear from you.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air. We'll get to
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the phone calls for about one minute.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I have the good fortune and I suppose in some
ways the burden of knowing a lot of people, and
sometimes that can be a burden in the sense that
while you share celebratory moments, I'm also some one that
people will send bad news to as well, so it
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can seem like it all starts to pile up. Several
of my friends were themselves or friends with the father
of or their kids, friends with the victim of a
tragic accident in Colorado a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Ago, and it was.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Involving a young man I believe he was at TCU
and he was a pledge brother of some kids that
I know there, high school classmate, I guess of some
other kids in their parents that I know, And it
is it's just one of those reminders life is precious
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and it can be over before you know it. I
lost classmates in high schoo that's a that's a misfortune.
I lost classmates shortly after high school. I remember Danny
Donovan died on a motorcycle. I think he was on
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Main Street in vider when we were about nineteen, and
that was the first one that really, you know, somebody
that I knew somewhat well who had passed. And then
Richard Church hit a deer on a farm to market
road and midnight coming home from work. He was in
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a little toil to truck and he hit this deer
head on. There was no lighting out on the I mean,
you know, you see these stories, and.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
He was gone. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Anyway, Netflix dropped a film two days ago called It's
part of a series they're doing called train Wreck. It's
the second in the series and it's Things That Went
and it's about the Astra World Travis Scott concert and
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I'm gonna tell you something, it's pretty good storytelling. They
make you. They put you in the moment of being
crushed by a crowd and being unable to breathe, and
you about half hyperventilate watching the film. It is tough
to watch because as a young man in the group,
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they didn't spend a lot of time on him. His
name was John Higbert, but he was at Memorial and
I think he was Crockett's age. But I knew a
lot of parents that knew the parents of this kid.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't believe I knew the kid himself.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I say, I don't believe because you spend enough time
on ball fields and you, you know, you say, oh,
I don't know who this kid is. It just won
this award and you find out that you coached a
team against him or whatever else. So I don't believe
I knew the young man. But we have a lot
of friends in common anyway. That is uh. I don't
want to say it's a good film, train Wreck, it's
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a it's I think it's it's uh, it's an eye
opening film.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And for those of you, especially in Houston, who had
some connection to the ten people who died, or some
connection to what was going on at the time, who
want to be reminded how awful Lena Hidalgo is and
how terrible a mayor Sylvester Turner is, It's It's a movie.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I would recommend you watch. How about that? Tom? Are
you are expert on all dads?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I'm not an expert?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Shot and I oh, okay, how how do they eat?
Are they good?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
What?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He didn't take us off speaker? Yeah, well you got
to do that, Dave. You don't have us on speaker,
do you.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Anymore? I took you off?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, please don't do that because it's it's awful radio.
All right, tell me about all dads, I got your brother.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
What do you want to know? I mean, I've killed
dozens of them. They're they're huge animals. Yeah, they uh,
they're all over the hill country. As far as eating
the flavor is good, but the more you chew them,
the bigger they get in your mouth. No matter how
long you cook them. They're just tougher than the hell.
Super tough.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That doesn't that doesn't sound like something I would choose
to go eat. It sounds like something that now that
I've felt it, I'm gonna eat it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, I mean it's cool. They're they're cool. They're gigantic animal.
The unique thing about them is that, you know from
Northern Africa, they coagulate almost instantly when they get shot.
So if you shoot one and you hit them just right,
they're gonna.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Go a mile a mile, a mile, and you're not
gonna be able to follow them.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
No, no, it back in the pump. They're gonna take
off exactly exactly. They're They're tough to get so you
gotta get them just right to put them down. But
they're big, man. I shot one that top to four
hundred pound scale and I don't know what a way,
but it topped out the scale big time.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And where was this?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Between Comfort and Caerrville?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Whose ranch?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It was? Our lease? It was on the on the
heid Old ranch, the old looking back family Albert Heidel
on that place. We were on that for years.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Who's we.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Me and a bunch of guys from Montgomery County.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What did y'all pay for that lease?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I think it was thirty five grand a year.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
How many of y'all are? How many of y'all.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
There were?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Old? Eight or ten of us? It was a I
think twenty five hundred acres is beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Was there a lodge on it?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
There was an old house they moved down from Fredericksburg
gazillion years ago, and we had all of our RVs
out around the house. It's kind of like that was
the main lodge. And uh, there was bunks upstairs, the
old kitchen, and I mean the house. It had about
a hundred and fifty years old old stone home. They
moved piece by piece down there.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Oh wow, oh wow, those old Frederick, those old Frederick
Fredericksburg homes. I love those fetchwork homes. I have a
friend named Bruce Laboon. I hadn't seen him in ten years,
but he had an old German you know, the logs
on top of the fetchwork, that great German architecture of
that era.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And this home was man.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
His home was like eighteen seventies, and you know, it
was kind of a low slung it was like a
cave inside. Just glorious, glorious home. And he had restored
it but stayed true to the original feel of it.
And we stayed there, My wife and I stayed there
for the night. Bruce was one of my many mentors
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over the years. But it was just a glory. I
love those old German homes of that era. That was
just just absolutely fantastic. What did you and the other
guys home fight have in common?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Where does all people that knew each other here in
Montgomery County?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I know, how did y'all know each other? Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I figured y'all were, okay, gosh, not everybody's a cop there,
But there's the cops out there and bail bondsman, and
what are yours? I was the bail bond industry. Now
I'm a drive investigator still and zero contractor to come
to politics.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Do you enjoy a harsh chemical lactative where you have
came to the right place? Because Michael Berry get on
him blowing all out babylage.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Beyond, i'd you accuse me beyond.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I discovered this song.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Called Le Moury Bond le Mory Bone by Jacques Brell,
a Belgian nineteen sixty one song when I was researching
Brian Wilson years ago, and he loved the song Seasons
in the Sun by Terry Jacks, and Seasons in the
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Sun was a translation of this song Les Mary Bond,
which is actually translated as the Dying Man Seasons in
the Sun is not nearly as maudline as the original.
But if you get a chance to go find his
name is Jacques Brell, b r e l.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's about it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It's a dying man's tribute to the people around him,
and so he closes the circle, ending with his wife
of you know he's going to be dying soon and
his love for them.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It's a great song, fantastic song.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Harry from Nashville, the drummer of the band that performed Wildfire,
which is how I remember him in my daily emails.
Harry Wilkinson, I believe is his name, Harry.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You're up.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Good morning, Michael. We have a swan song. Last Tuesday
I got together with Michael and we played at the
Franklin Theater in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, and back that
place out. We had a little one evening where I
went back and played drugs for Mike. I wanted to
talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, Mike, does that mean that Michael Martin Murphy has done.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
No, no, it was just I went back. He does
a trio behind him now and since he was in Nashville,
the piano player, uh, and myself, not the original piano player,
but the great piano player, Dave Hofner.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And I came back and played for Michael last Tuesday,
and my son was there and eight family members and
my disabled blind granddaughter got to meet Michael and he
was really nice and she asked he asked him a question,
Michael Murphy, do you know what show you should watch?
And she he said, no, we're looking bappos back in
the Drisker and she has uh. She had a surgery
(10:41):
which is fourteen months old. The coulcures to be of
cerebral palsy. Right, so he says to him, she's sixteen
years old. You need to watch the show Nailed It,
which is cooking show. And he said, do you know
what my favorite song is? I thought, Oh, she's going
to say wildfire and he says, he looks at me again,
quizically and she says the Longest Day. And now that
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he looks at me again, quiz you know the Billy
Joel song. And it was really funny. But I was
going to tell you about the Beach Boys story when
we did the show. It's the Spectrum in Philadelphia where
we had a very brief sound check. After the Beach
Boys went through their soundcheck and the drummer was roady,
was very domineering, and he gave us just a moment.
(11:26):
He polished the drums and everything to keep me from
getting a chance to clean up. And then right after
our show, Mike Love took me back into the dressing
room and their dressing room was made out like a
Malibu cabana, and it had a fake AstroTurf on the
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floor and big rats tan chairs and the spread of
food like you've never seen in a dressing room, and
Mike Loves like, what was you like, Harry here there?
I'm like, I can't believe I'm doing this, you know,
And so then they go out in there show starts
and the drum road. He had not set the snare
drum up properly, and as soon as Dennis the drummer
started playing, the drum fell over, and Dennis was like
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the hot tempered one in the band. He takes the
snare drum and tries to hit the guy over the
head with it, and we all had a good laugh
about that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, I was gonna be surprised if Michael Martin Murphy
was retiring because he's only eighty.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, he turned eighty last week. On he said it
was his birthday that night. But we had a crowd,
you know.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I just checked because I was trying.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I thought he was about seventy five March fourteenth, but
not so long ago.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
How about that? You know, while Fire was y'all's most.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Famous song, but I think What's what What's Forever for
is is just an absolutely beautiful, beautiful song, A fantastic song.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Drum No, sir, that was Eddie Bear's when send the
business that does the judge and mcagilly. He does all
the mcagilly stuff from years ago and the Johnny Lee
stuff that you liked. Eddie lears. He's a great guy,
great privilege. But I almost had tears in my eyes
on What's Forever four and we saved Wildsire to the
last song of the evening and it was just tremendous evening.
(13:17):
So it's kind of like my swan song. I thought, Wow,
I've lived the dream.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I got to have a herd their applause one more time.
Did you just had a great evening?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Harry?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I know you're still involved with music, but did you
rehearse before that show or is it just you know,
getting back on bicycle.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's just that easy.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Well, they sent me a song of this the six
songs to do, and then we did four of them,
and then I just can listen real hard. I know
Michael stuff and being the piano player Wingdon on the song.
He has one about being a cowboys the cowboy way,
which I didn't really know. But I'm pretty good at
faking stuff, you know, I'm a pretty quick study on
that sort of thing. But It was a tremendous night,
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and a lot of his fans of years Yesteryear was
there dreat musical evening.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I just looked him up, Michael Martin Murphy, and I
did not realize he's the author of New Mexico's state
ballad The Land of Enchantment.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, glad to learn that too. Glad to learn that?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, how about that he was born in the Oak
Cliff section of Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I knew this from Dallas, I didn't know where.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
How about that he's a great writer. He's such a
great writer. I love his stuff. That the cowboys stuff.
It's I probably shouldn't say this, Well I will say it.
I think his cowboy stuff is better than chrys Ladue's stuff.
And frankly, I think that most people who would argue
with me over that learned about chrys Lado in a
(14:46):
Garth Brooks song, in which case you don't have the
credibility to criticize my judgment for that.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Why did you leave the band, Harry?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
We just had a certain era of growth and he
was going to lead John Denver's management and go to
Cariboo Chicago Transit Authorities management, and they had a little
thing called an attorney, and they didn't like things. Change it,
and so things went anywhere for a moment, and I
got hired by a production company in Denver to do
(15:16):
all their studio work, and I started my own bands
called the Red Birds, and we would have been on
Caribou Record had Terry Kams of Chicago about blowing his
springs up.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Oh man, that's the turn.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We got to pay money on coverage.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We didn't get nothing the Hard Times the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. It's a
damn shame. It's a damn shame.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Bad when right there in the hand and dying roum man,
and then.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Think about it, is.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It was a damn horse. I wonder what percentage of
people that hum that song or sing along when it's
playing at the Applebee's in the background while they're eating,
realize the damn song is about a horse.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Ramon.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So we have a show sponsor called Republic Boot Company.
And when they started with us, they were they were
barely tread and water. It's a tough business. There are
custom boot companies out there and a lot of people.
(16:37):
If you've never owned a custom boot. You don't know,
you have no idea what you're missing. And you know,
I'm sure that's true of many many things in life.
And in some things you hear all the hullabaloo about
it and then you do it and you go okay.
And you know what I would put in that category
of things from on escargo caviaar in about nine other
(17:04):
expensive foods that are supposed to be so great.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Pote man. I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I don't even need to know how nasty it is
to know it tastes nasty. And you know what, I
don't think people actually like it. I think they say
they like it because if you're standing around at a
party and you're really rich and you want to pretend
we're having so much more fun than the pores, you
(17:32):
have to act like you're enjoying it. You know what
people would enjoy, I'll tell you the truth. You know
what people would enjoy if you had a nice silver
dish like a NoMBe. That's about as fancy as the
Berry family gets. My wife and I were in Santa
Fe twenty five years ago, and we thought we were
somebody we bought. We discovered this silver serving dish set
(17:58):
called Nambae. I don't know what it is. It was
a little more than the white with the blue trim
that my mother had had bought in the seventies that
everybody had, or the white with that yellow trim that
you still have cleaning out in my parents' house. They
still had that stuff, you know else they still had.
My wife was surprised it was one of the things
that I had to bring home. I'm in an anti
(18:18):
clutter phase of my life, so I didn't. There are
a lot of keepsakes that didn't bring home, but one
I had to bring home was four of the old
Dairy Queen Christmas glasses. You know what I'm talking about.
If you had one. They're long and slender, and they
are black with a Sandy Claus little fellow with a
spike and it says DQ in the in the bottom.
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Every family had them, you collected them. It was a
complete set. It was a brilliant move by Dairy Quinn. Anyway,
I don't even know why I got on all that.
So Republic Boot Company was barely tread and water, and
I like to talk to my show sponsors about how
they're doing, and so I would ask how they were
(19:02):
doing and just kind of slowly but surely.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Building up, building up.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And I'm not going to take credit for one hundred
percent of their success. Probably I mean to be accurate,
it's probably ninety five percent. Cal McNair went in and
brought the brought the quarterback a pair and we talked
about that, and they sold a lot more custom boots.
They sell boots off the rack, but they also but
most of their boots are custom boots. And anyway, so
(19:30):
Chris works for I believe the owner works for Excellent,
and his day job he does so that he can
afford his passion, which is his boot company. And he started,
he bootstrapped this boot company, and he started in the heights,
and they just kept expanding. A little shop beside him
would close down, and they'd buy that little shop, and
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then they would expand in the hats, and they would
expand in the belts, and then you.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Know, they're already in the leather.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then they brought in a custom soup maker and
he does out of there, and then they brought in,
you know, all sorts of other stuff. And then they
put a little little tiny stage up front, and they
started having not that tiny they started having folks come
in and sing, and then they started bringing in rare
bourbons and things, and they started hosting parties. That became
an event space as well. Anyway, I'm so proud of them.
(20:19):
He's bought the building and he was rushing to get
the building closed in time that he could celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary of the cornerstone brick being laid in
that building in the Heights. And it's at eleventh and
stud of Wood. If you know that corner, there used
to be a place called was it Creole Cafe? There
(20:41):
used to be a great Louisiana kind of a fruit
fruit Louisiana coffee shop and pastry shop and you could
get fantastic jumbalai there.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Did you ever go there?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Ramone?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's on that hard corner. No, that's not really your
it's not that's not really saying a fact.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Not really your domain. You kind of have Santa Fe,
Texas City staked out. You handle that end.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Chad's got Westbury, Jim Mudd has got the northeast.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
He's got Huffman.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Was it Oak Cliff, Shenandoah? What else does he have
out there? But he's got that area. Let's just say
that uh Kunda has Katie I believe isn't Conda and Katie. Anyway,
Republic Boot Company is doing a deal. There was an
article about it and it was in the news, and
(21:35):
I just saw it and made me think about it.
It's a kill your own alligator and then they make
boots out of the alligator you kill.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
So it's five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
You go to Annihac and they they they bring a
professional with you because anniwhak is the alligator.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Capital of the world.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You can't or uh Troy Landry and and all those
guys over there, they're they're my brother knew all those
guys they are the alligator whispers. Anyway, So there's a
big story about it. It's making national news. You go
with the professional, you track your gator, you shoot your gator,
skin your gator, and then they transform it into a
(22:15):
pair of boots that you get to wear. Now can
you imagine how obnoxious some guy who's an accountant I
can see. I can see Harvin law Horn at Deroche
Partners my CPA. I think he went to Saint John
or King Kid or whatever. I can see Harvin going
(22:36):
into the office meet with a client and he's got
his just most ghost pair of alligator boots on, and
somebody makes the mistake of saying, and that's why you
got to be careful.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Oh, that's a nice pair of boots.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And thirty five minutes later he's hearing the story about
how Harvon went with Republic Boot Company. He shot his
own gator and then they made the boots, and yeah
that you know what did Randy Rogers say, for the
sake of the song, This is all for the sake
of the story. That that's it's gonna be a great
story for for some downtown Mary te.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Tell me when will you be mine?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Tell me one nuck, one nup one.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
We can share.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Love divine, Please don't make me wait again. When will
you say yes to me?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Tell me one up, one up one?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
You mean have been to me? Oh my love?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Please tell me when.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Every moment, every day seems a live time. Let me
show you the way to a joy beyond compare. I
(24:31):
can wait a moment more.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Tell me one nook, one up one. See it's me.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I've been talking for forty five seconds and you couldn't
hear me because your moon had me potted down.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I guess I just think I'm the boss. When somebody
else can turn off your microphone.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
You don't have complete agency if you don't fall on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
If you followed me before my account had three hundred
and fifty thousand followers, that's not my account anymore. They've
locked me out of it. They torment me by letting
me in for an hour at a time, whereupon I say, hey,
here's my new page. Go to my new page. But
then they lock it again. And even even when they
let me in, I have to go through eight pages
(25:28):
that say your account is on the verge of being
canceled because you're a crash bastard.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Or something like that. I don't know what they say.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Because I posted things like Hunter Biden was taking bribes.
We now know that's true. Posted a picture of Hunter
Biden with a crack pipe in the bathtub. I only
showed it from the chest up.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Oh that's terrible. What about all these other people frolicking
on the beach.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
They got a naked chest too, What is it?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's bad if.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's Hunter Biden's. But anyway, I posted yesterday something we
had played. I like Engelbert Humperdink and we had played
out of yesterday or day before members yesterday, Hey, we'd
played Kwanda Kuwanda Kwonda, which I really like. And he said, hey,
dad's got Alzheimer's. So I read the Alzheimer's News and
(26:23):
it was this story I think you would like. It
was a link to the story. And a guy probably
about my age drives around with his dad who has Alzheimer's,
and his dad doesn't really remember him all the time
most of the time, but he remembers the words to
this song. So they drive around and when it gets
(26:44):
to the chorus, they sing it together. And I'm going
to tell you something. If you've watched somebody go through,
they now call it memory care.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
All the old folks.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Homes now they kind of there's a there's primarily kind
of a three phase process or three prongs to old
folks care now, which by the way, is very lucrative.
Now I had no idea big money. You've got what
they call independent living. And if somebody's in independent living,
(27:20):
do not use the term old folks home. They don't
like that. That's what my mom and dad called it
until they were until my dad was in one. But
independent living is where you're old and you just don't
want to have to cut your own grass or manage
your own home. And you know, we're all, you know,
(27:43):
marching to the grave in one way or another. Independent
living is a transition from living in your own home
to being in full blown what they call assisted living.
So independent living is if you can still you know,
control everything and handle your own medicine, and you're living
(28:04):
around other people, and should you need help, it's there,
but you don't. You don't have constant nursing nurses stopping
in all day long.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Then you move from there to the.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
More costly and more services assisted living, and that means
you still have your mind, but you have some medical issue.
So in my dad's on my dad's he's in assisted
living because of the diabetes portion. So probably thirty percent
(28:37):
of these folks are in a wheelchair and they have various,
you know, different problems that you if you've been around
old people, you know incontinence that, there can be skin issues,
there can be breathing issues, there can be all sorts
of things. My dad's is just very extreme diabetes, which
(28:57):
he's battled for sixty five years. Alliantly, may I say,
because he's he shouldn't even be alive at eighty five,
much less have all ten of his toes and fingers
and his vision. It's unheard of, doctor stated, it's unheard of.
He had to treat himself for most of that and
then from assisted living. The next phase is, which I
don't think he has been around that long, is memory care,
(29:21):
and that is people with Joe Biden disease in one
way or another.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
So Joe Biden should.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Have been in memory care. I mean, I guess in
a sense he was. They had him in the White House.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The only thing.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Nicki Haley has ever said useful was the most expensive
memory care or facility in America was.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The White House for the last four years.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Anyway, it's a really heartwarming story to see this guy
and his dad driving around and when they get to
the chorus, his dad catches up. That's the chorus, and
together they belt out Kwando, Kwando, kwondo, and it's just glorious.
I watched it for twenty and just watched it on loop.
It's incredible, if you, uh, if you can get over
(30:06):
the fact that he does his show in drag, which
I find very tedious, but he's funny, so I'll listen
instead of watch.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Eddie Izzard has a clip on Engelbert Humper Dank and
how how he came to have his name.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It's uh, it's it's uh. It's it's very funny. Actually,
you'd probably rather listen to it than watch it. Every year,
every year the media attacks the Texas Rangers and they
try to cancel the team, including the local newspaper there,
Fort Worth Star Telegram, because they're the only team in
(30:47):
Major League Baseball, the only holdout who refuses to host
a Pride Night. So now the Fort Worth Star Telegram says,
uh the headline, maybe hosting Pride Night will reverse the
Texas rangers putrid offense. You know, if I were the
Texas Rangers, I'd go Trump on them. I assume it's
(31:12):
still Tom Hicks right that has it, George Bush's old
business partner. I would yank their media credentials. You want
to say things like that about us, I would absolutely Anyway,
I love to hear from you. So if you have
a random thought today, if you're interested in details on
our Palm Beach trip, we are. I think we have
(31:35):
a third of the way to filling the group which
is faster than ever, probably because we'd put a little
time in between when I announced it in the event,
unlike the first couple of times, which our staff hates
but our team hates.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
You can email me on whatever the Palm Beach trip,
how to find our Facebook page show sponsors. Dozens of
times a day I am asked, who's your person who
does this? Who's the person who does that? Your custom boo,
it's your roofing, your jewelry, your gold.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Your a lot.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Unfortunately, a lot of prostate uh cancer patients at want
to prostate doctor uh. But I'm glad we have someone
to send them to. You can email me through the
website Michael Berryshow dot com or directly Michael at Michael
Berryshow dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I do love to hear from you.
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